Your MRI report says that you have a herniated disc in your lumbar spine. This sounds scary and could be the source of your back and/or leg pain. Here is what you need to know and what your doctor ...

Your backbone, or spine, is made up of 26 bones called vertebrae. In between them are soft discs filled with a jelly-like substance. These discs cushion the vertebrae and keep them in place. As you ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published results showed lumbar microdiscectomy with a bone-anchored annular closure device for treatment of ...

A single spinal injection was given to 154 patients in the ESI group of an observational study from the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT). They were compared with 453 patients who did not ...

A new study has found that patients with herniated lumbar disc symptoms were significantly worse if the patients had symptoms for more than six months prior to treatment, compared to those who had ...

Last month we discussed that the higher level (L1-L2, L2-L3 and L3-L4) lumbar disc herniations present significantly different than the more common lower level (L4-L5 and L5-S1) lumbar disc ...

Researchers described new therapeutic approaches to repair herniated discs in the lumbar spine using novel tissue engineering and regenerative medicine strategies. Novel tissue engineering and ...

This integrated approach, combining histological analysis and single-nucleus RNA sequencing, revealed that the senescence and depletion of nucleus pulposus progenitor cells (NPPCs) represent ...